1、1990年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1.A) A new house cost thirty thousand dollars.B) Bobs house cost him sixty thousand dollars.C) Bob didnt want to buy an old house.D) Bob decided to buy an old house.（）2.A) Yes, but he needs to have the approval of his profes
2、sor.B) Yes, he can study there if he is writing a research paper.C) Yes, because he is a senior student.D) No, its open only to teachers and postgraduates.（）3.A) He doesnt like seafood any more.B) A seafood dinner is too expensive.C) He doesnt have enough money.D) He likes seafood very much.（）4.A) H
3、e went to the hospital to take his wife home.B) He stayed in the hospital until very late.He tried to call the woman several times.He went to the hospital at midnight yesterday.5.Her errors were mainly in the reading part.B) It wasnt very challenging to her.C) It was more difficult than she had expe
4、cted.D) She made very few grammatical mistakes in her test.（）6.A) 6 hours.B) 4 hours.C) 12 hours.D) 18 hours.（）7.A) Its dirty.B) Its faded.C) Its dyed.D) Its torn.（）8.A) Sixteen dollars.B) Eight dollars.C) Ten dollars.D) Twelve dollars.（）9.A) His watch will be fixed no later than next Monday.B) His
5、watch needs to be repaired.C) He may come again for his watch at the weekend.D) The woman wont repair his watch until next Monday.（）10.A) The things to do on Monday morning.B) The weather on Monday morning.C) The time to see John.D) The place John should go to.（）Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 1
6、4 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) The number of its readers.B) Its unusual location.C) Its comfortable chairs.D) Its spacious rooms.（）12.A) The latest version of the Bible.B) A book written by Columbus.C) A map of the New World.D) One of the earliest copies of Shakespeares work.（）
7、13.A) It has too few employees.B) It lacks money to cover its expenses.C) It is over crowded.D) It is growing too rapidly.（）14.A) From Monday to Friday.B) From Monday to Saturday.C) Every day.D) On Saturdays and Sundays.（）Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15.
8、A) They would train the children to be happy street cleaners.B) They would make the children great scholars.C) They intended to train the children as adults were trained.D) They would give the children freedom to fully develop themselves.（）16.A) Some children are good, some are not.B) Children are g
9、ood by nature.C) Most children are nervous.D) Children are not as brave as adults.（）17.A) He thinks a scholar is more respectable than a street cleaner.B) He thinks highly of teaching as a profession.C) He thinks all jobs are equally good so long as people like them.D) He thinks a street cleaner is
10、happier than a scholar.（）Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18.A) The daughter of a prison guard.B) The Emperor of Rome.C) A Christian couple.D) A Christian named Valentine.（）19.A) To propose marriage.B) To celebrate Valentines birthday.C) To express their r
11、espect for each other.D) To show their love.（）20.A) It is an American folktale.B) It is something recorded in Roman history.C) It is one of the possible origins of this holiday.D) It is a story from the Bible.（）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the
12、following passage.One day in January 1913. G. H. Hardy, a famous Cambridge University mathematician received a letter from an Indian named Srinivasa Ramanujan asking him for his opinion of 120 mathematical theorems (定理) that Ramanujan said he had discovered. To Hardy, many of the theorems made no se
13、nse. Of the others, one or two were already well-known. Ramanujan must be some kind of trickplayer, Hardy decided, and put the letter aside. But all that day the letter kept hanging round Hardy. Might there be something in those wild-looking theorems?That evening Hardy invited another brilliant Camb
14、ridge mathematician, J. E. Littlewood, and the two men set out to assess the Indians worth. That incident was a turning point in the history of mathematics.At the time, Ramanujan was an obscure Madras Port Trust clerk. A little more than a year later, he was at Cambridge University, and beginning to
15、 be recognized as one of the most amazing mathematicians the world has ever known. Though he died in 1920, much of his work was so far in advance of his time that only in recent years is it beginning to be properly understood.Indeed, his results are helping solve todays problems in computer science
16、and physics, problems that he could have had no notion of.For Indians, moreover, Ramanujan has a special significance. Ramanujan, though born in poor and ill-paid accountants family 100 years ago, has inspired many Indians to adopt mathematics as career.Much of Ramanujans work is in number theory, a
17、 branch of mathematics that deals with the subtle (难以捉摸的) laws and relationships that govern numbers. Mathematicians describe his results as elegant and beautiful but they are much too complex to be appreciated by laymen.His life, though, is full of drama and sorrow. It is one of the great romantic
18、stories of mathematics, a distressing reminder that genius can surface and rise in the most unpromising circumstances.21.When Hardy received the 120 theorems from Ramanujan, his attitude at first might be best described as _.A) uninterestedB) unsympatheticC) suspiciousD) curious（）22.Ramanujans posit
19、ion in Cambridge University owed much to _.A) the judgement of his work by Hardy and LittlewoodB) his letter of application accepted by HardyC) his work as a clerk at Madras Port TrustD) his being recognized by the world as a famous mathematician（）23.It may be inferred from the passage that the auth
20、or _.A) feels sorry for Ramanujans early deathB) is dissatisfied with the slow development of computer scienceC) is puzzled about the complexity of Ramanujans theoremsD) greatly appreciates Ramanujans mathematical genius（）24.In the last paragraph, the author points out that _.A) Ramanujans mathemati
21、cal theorems were not appreciated by other mathematiciansB) extremely talented people can prove their worth despite difficult circumstancesC) Ramanujan also wrote a number of stories about mathematicsD) Ramanujan had worked out an elegant but complicated method of solving problems（）25.The word “laym
22、en” (Last Para, Lind 6) most probably means _.A) people who do not specialize in mathematical scienceB) people who are carelessC) people who are not interested in mathematicsD) people who dont like to solve complicated problems（）Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Even i
23、f all the technical and intellectual problems can be solved, there are major social problems inherent in the computer revolution. The most obvious is unemployment, since the basic purpose of commercial computerization is to get more work done by fewer people. OneBritish study predicts that “automati
24、on induced unemployment” in Western Europe could reach16, 6 in the next decade, but most analyses are more optimistic. The general rule seems to be that new technology eventually creates as many jobs as it destroys, and often more. “People who put in computers usually increase their staffs as well”
25、says CPTs Scheff. “Of course,” he adds, “one industry may kill another industry. Thats tough on some people.”Theoretically, all unemployed workers can be retrained, but retraining programs are not high on the nations agenda (议事日程). Many new jobs, moreover, will require an ability in using computers,
26、 and the retraining needed to use them will have to be repeated as the technology keeps improving. Says a chilling report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment:“Lifelong retraining is expected to become the standard for many people. “There is a already considerable evidence that the s
27、chool children now being educated in the use of computers are generally the children of the white middle class. Young blacks, whose unemployment rate stands today at 50 96, will find another barrier in front of them.Such social problems are not the fault of the computer, of course, but a consequence
28、 of the way the American society might use the computer. “Even in the days of the Big, main-frame computers, when they were a machine for the few.” says Katherine Davis Fishman, author ofThe Computer Establishment, “it was a tool to help the rich get richer. It still is to a large extent. One of the
29、 great values of the personal computer is that smaller firms, smaller organizations can now have some of the advantages of the bigger organizations.”26.The closest restatement of “one industry may kill another industry” (Para. 1 Line 11) is that _.A) industries tend to compete with one anotherB) one
30、 industry might be driven out of business by another industryC) one industry may increase its staff at the expense of anotherD) industries tend to combine into bigger ones（）27.The word “chilling” (Para. 2, Line 5) most probably means _.A) misleadingB) convincingC) discouragingD) interesting（）28.Whic
31、h of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?A) Computers are efficient in retraining unemployed workers.B) Computers may offer more working opportunities than they destroy.C) Computers will increase the unemployment rate of young blacks.D) Computers can help smaller organizations to function
32、more effectively.（）29.From the passage it can be inferred that _.A) all school children are offered a course in the use of computersB) all unemployed workers are being retrainedC) retraining programmes are considered very important by the governmentD) in reality only a certain portion of unemployed
33、workers will be retrained（）30.The major problem discussed in the passage is _.A) the importance of lifelong retraining of the unemployed workersB) the social consequences of the widespread use of computers in the United StatesC) the barrier to the employment of young peopleD) the general rule of the
34、 advancement of technology（）Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships.Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater
35、family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing.Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial, vertical, and ideational mobility.A great incre
36、ase in spatial mobility has gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on family continui
37、ty and stability. It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community, the person or the family is removed from the pressures of relatives, friends, and community institutions for conventionality and stability. Even more important is the fact that sp
38、atial mobility permits some members of a family to come in contact with and possibly adopt attitudes, values, and ways of thinking different from those held by other family members. The presence of different attitudes, values, and ways of thinking with in a family may, and often does, result in conf
39、lict and family disorganization. Potential disorganization is present in those families in which the husband, wife, and children are spatially separated over a long period, or are living together but see each other only briefly because of different work schedules.One index of the increase in vertica
40、l mobility is the great increase in the proportion of sons, and to some extent daughters, who engage in occupations other than those of the parents.Another index of vertical mobility is the degree of intermarriage between racial classes. This occurs almost exclusively between classes which are adjac
41、ent to each other. Engaging in a different occupation, or intermarriage, like spatial mobility, allows one to come in contact with ways of behavior different from those of the parental home, and tends to separate parents and their children.The increase in ideational mobility is measured by the incre
42、ase in publications, such as newspapers, periodicals, and books, the increase in the percentage of the population owning radios, and the increase in television sets. All these tend to introduce new ideas into the home.When individual family members are exposed to and adopt the new ideas, the tendenc
43、y is for conflict to arise and for those in conflict to become psychologically separated from each other.31.What the passage tells us can be summarized by the statement:A) social development results in a decline in the importance of traditional familiesB) potential disorganization is present in the
44、American familyC) family disorganization is more or less the result of mobilityD) the movement of a family is one of the factors in raising its social status（）32.According to the passage, those who live in a traditional family _.A) are less likely to quarrel with others because of conventionality an
45、d stabilityB) have to depend on their relatives and friends if they do not move away from itC) can get more help from their family members if they are in troubleD) will have more freedom of action and thought if they move away from it（）33.Potential disorganization exists in those families in which _
46、.A) the husband, wife, and children work too hardB) the husband, wife, and children seldom get togetherC) both parents have to work full timeD) the family members are subject to social pressures（）34.Intermarriage and different occupations play an important role in family disorganization because _.A)
47、 they enable the children to travel around without their parents permissionB) they allow one to find a good job and improve ones social statusC) they enable the children to better understand the ways of behavior of their parentsD) they permit one to come into contact with different ways of behavior
48、and thinking（）35.This passage suggests that a well-organized family is a family whose members _.A) are not psychologically withdrawn from one anotherB) never quarrel with each other even when they disagreeC) often help each other with true love and affectionD) are exposed to the same new ideas introduced by books, radios, and TV sets（）Passage FourQuesti
